LE

HS2 Crossrail etc anything that they tout and causes massive disruption tends to be a disasterous overrun cost and time. Politicians should be made to pay for these themselves. The electrification of the western is more urgent and practicable but wont win any votes!

LE

Look at it from the 'glass half-full' perspective: it would allow you to get away from Birmingham faster.

Once during a fever I remembered that when a European is dying, there is usually some sort of ceremony in which he asks the pardon of others and pardons them. I have a great many enemies, and I thought, what should my answer be if some modernized persons should ask me my views on this? After considering it, I decided: Let them go on hating me. I shall not forgive a single one of them.

Inepteresting fact. One of the significant reasons UK motorways are so expensive to build is that they are still specced with long sweeping curves and tiny gradients for no speed limit and all the junctions are designed so they can switch round to driving on the right just by swapping round the signs.

LE

The Polish have a stretch of road on the way to DPTA. You're driving along a dual carriage way in the forest, when suddenly it opens out in to a vast expanse of tarmac (no central reservation) wierd markings and all the trees cut back.

Flat as a plate. If you look around from a high vehicle you can see it is actually a full on airfield, with pans and all the bits and bobs to move aircraft around off runway. A few buildings and hangers too!

I imagine it would have been activated if the Cold War had kicked off. Just East of German/Polish border.